Living Two Lives Quotes

#1. If you're living two lives and you're lying to everyone, you're bound to slip up, in some way, you're bound to get something wrong, and you're bound to get found out.

Jamie Bell

#2. I felt like I was living two lives. One in the present and one in the past.

A.B. Shepherd

#3. I was scared of living a life not worth the living. Why did I deserve to live when my sister had died? I was responsible now for two lives, my sister's and my own, and, damn, I'd better live well.

Nina Sankovitch

#4. Ruthlessness, charm, focus, mental toughness, fearlessness, mindfulness (living in the moment), and action. Who wouldn't, at certain points in their lives, benefit from kicking one or two of them up a notch? What was important was being able to turn them back down.

Kevin Dutton

#5. Their imaginations were flywheels on the ramshackle machinery of the awful truth.

Kurt Vonnegut

#6. As a living creature I am part of two kinds of forces- growth and decay, sprouting and withering, living and dying- and at any given moment of our lives, each one of us is actively located somewhere along a continuum between these two forces.

Audre Lorde

#7. I've now loved two men in my life, and I've lost them both. Losing them hurts, but their lives taught me so much about living that what they taught me somehow overshadows the loss.

R.K. Ryals

#8. It's not any easier. We can't choose who we fall in love with. Besides, there's nothing abnormal about two guys being together. Nature made you the way you are and me the way I am. We're already living normal lives.

Jay Bell

#9. Are we all living like this? Two lives, the ideal outer life and the inner imaginative life where we keep our secrets?

Jeanette Winterson

#10. Let me tell you exactly what we would do on Social Security. Yes, we'd raise the retirement age two years and phase it in over 25 years; that means we'd raise it one month a year for 25 years when we're all living longer, and living better lives.

Chris Christie

#11. I want you to know that I would be happy if the two of us spent the rest of our lives living in the cabin. It's not the size of the house that makes it a home. It's the love inside. Marrying you is the best decision I've ever made, Eric Hawke.

Pamela Clare

#12. Drinking is another way of thinking, another way of living. It gives you two lives instead of one.

Charles Bukowski

#13. There are strange friendships: two friends almost want to devour each other, and they spend their entire lives living that way, but meanwhile they cannot part.

Fyodor Dostoyevsky

#14. What I want to show in my work is the idea which hides itself behind so-called reality.

Max Beckmann

#15. A loose definition of the Tea Party might be fifteen million pissed-off white people sent chasing after Mexicans on Medicaid by the small handful of banks and investment companies who advertise on Fox and CNBC.

Matt Taibbi

#16. Planting flowers in a desert is more productive than imparting wisdom to fools.

Matshona Dhliwayo

#17. Virtue and wealth seldom go together. The greatest criminals are also the wealthiest men."
-The Cripple

F. Sionil Jose

#18. There are two ways of thinking. One is living life based on fear. The other is trusting. Letting go and allowing trust to control our lives takes mental gymnastics.

David W. Earle

#19. Is the future, is the past, all that matters to you? Don't you have just a little bit of room for the present?

Orson Scott Card

#20. Change without learning is painful. Learning without change is pointless.

Graham O'Connell

#21. It was hard when I knew I was about to be flooded with memories of a life I hadn't lived yet. Really, two lives I hadn't lived yet.

Kasie West

#22. The big trunk of the umbrella pine looms outside the window, living its two lives - the upper world of needles and stems, the lower world of roots and soil.

Anthony Doerr

#23. Like you got two lives. And which one's real? Which one's actually the life your living?

Kate Tempest

#24. Finding the perfect lookalike to work with is crucial and a lengthy process. We have our regulars, but we also use social media all the time to find people. It's amazing who you can unearth on Twitter.

Alison Jackson

#25. The chambermaid believed in courtly love. A book's physical self was sacrosanct to her, its form inseparable from its content; her duty as a lover was Platonic adoration, a noble but doomed attempt to conserve forever the state of perfect chastity in which it had left the bookseller.

Anne Fadiman

#26. Every man has two lives: The first one is the one we are living now and the second one is our memories! Memories are our invisible lives. But you must know that it is your first life that creates your second life!

Mehmet Murat Ildan

#27. We all know that the 'divine glory of the ego' is socially a great nuisance; we all do actually value our friends for modesty, freshness, and simplicity of heart. Whatever may be the reason, we all do warmly respect humility in other people.

Gilbert K. Chesterton

#28. I always am a firm believer in you compensate people for their job, and so I did give them bonuses. We accomplished a lot in Congress, we passed health care reform. There were threats against their lives; they had a tough two years. They'd forgone any cost-of-living increase or any bonus before.

John Salazar

#29. There are two kinds of doubt: one that fully lives into the questions, and one that uses the questions as weapons against fully living.

Ann Voskamp

#30. The difference between great people and everyone else is that great people create their lives actively, while everyone else is created by their lives, passively waiting to see where life takes them next. The difference between the two is living fully and just existing.

Gerber Michael E.

#31. The sadness of our existence should not leave us blunted, on the contrary
how to remain thin-skinned, vulnerable and stay alive?

Montgomery Clift

#32. We have problems which will be addressed by Haitians.

Jean-Bertrand Aristide

#33. And so, it is always the case that the past is irreparably land-locked, and the future has yet to land. And here we are, living out our lives on the precariously thin line which separates the two.

Craig D. Lounsbrough

#34. If I'm trying to please every craze fan, then I can't. Of course, we all want to please the fans.

Zooey Deschanel

#35. It's not perfect, this thing between us, like trying to bring the two circles of our lives together, and living in the small, tight space where they intersect, everything else pushed to the circumference, until we step back inside our very different, very separate orbs.

Leylah Attar